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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Partial transplant from a living donor was not viable for her. It would have immediately failed, leaving her with no liver at all, and then she would have died because she wasn't eligible for a full transplant. Doctors will not perform a procedure that guarantees death. The article explains this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting facts in a stupid way or stupid facts in an interesting way. We only have enough for 50%.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

The ocean was purple once, and another time the only thing taller than little bushes were twenty foot tall mushrooms shaped like asparagus

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Must have accidentally mistaken your classmate for his own child

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It forces me to read everything as though I'm reading Shakespeare, except the cadence never really comes. Now I feel itchy and angry at my monitor for showing me this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Ukraine is training with water guns in preparation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's because low level in terms of software engineering is like the foundation of a building, while high level in terms of the skill required to do something is like the top of a podium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just pirate it that way you agreed to nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even if you turn it off the radio is still powered on and scanning in the background (wifi too), unless you specifically disable that as well. The battery drain is negligible

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It's weaker but Windows is so astonishingly terrible on handhelds that it ends up being a far better experience

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Way easier to explain it this way:

Switching turns a correct guess into an incorrect one, and an incorrect one into a correct one. Your initial guess was more likely incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have a theory that this has a special name less frequently the further you get from the equator because it's a phenomenon that's less rare when the sun spends less time overhead

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